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CiOS Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Korean Orthopaedic Association.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2005-291XVerify ISSN ↗2005-4408Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Orthopaedic Association
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 152 / 597 | 74th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 129 / 340 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
CiOS Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery is Q2 in Surgery (rank 152 of 597) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 129 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
CiOS Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.868, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 57.
CiOS Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery is published by Korean Orthopaedic Association. Its print ISSN is 2005-291X and its online ISSN is 2005-4408.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
CiOS Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 2.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #67 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
CiOS Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery published 122 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 130. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (69%), China (9.6%) and Japan (3.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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